Biography

EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California
Bachelor of Fine Arts, The Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna, California
University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Los Angeles

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021 White Light, Bareiss Gallery, Taos, New Mexico

2020 Light, Schoolhouse Art Center, Croton Falls, New York

2016 New, Hulse Warman Gallery, Taos, New Mexico

2015 Artist Series, Exhibition and Lecture, Soho Salon, New York, New York

2013 Current Work, Hulse Warman Gallery, Taos, New Mexico

2012 POEM, Glass Installation Curator's Wall, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico

2012 Glass Poems, Hulse Warman Gallery, Taos, New Mexico

2011 Drawings and Glass, Eight Modern Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2010 Michelle Cooke, Box Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2009 Zeichnungen und Glasinstallationen, 91 Prinzregentenstrasse, Munich, Germany

2008 Graphite, Glass, and Steel, Box Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2008 Growth, Mesa Public Library, Los Alamos, New Mexico
2006 Retrospective, Box Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2005 1030 Agua Fria, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2000 Whelan Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1999 Whelan Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1999 Jan Maiden Fine Art, Columbus, Ohio
1998 Jan Maiden Fine Art, Columbus, Ohio
1997 Glass Installation, Jan Maiden Fine Art, Columbus, Ohio
1997 Jan Maiden Fine Art, Columbus, Ohio
1996 Installation Ships, Pasadena, California
1996 Jan Maiden Fine Art, Columbus, Ohio
1995 Jan Maiden Fine Art, Columbus, Ohio
1995 University of New Mexico, Taos/Canyon Center, Taos, New Mexico
1994 Canyon Contemporary Art, Columbus, Ohio
1992 Gallery 200, Columbus, Ohio
1991 The Rome Series II, Rome, Italy
1990 C.R. Obetz Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
1987 Glass Installation, Denison University, Granville, Ohio
1985 Evolution of a City Installation, Villa Massenzia, Rome, Italy
1984 Rome Series, Villa Massenzia, Rome Italy
1983 East Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California
1982 Ettinger Gallery, Laguna Beach, California

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020 Hammond Museum november Virtual Exhibition, North Salem, New York

2016 Transforming Space, Las Cruces Museum of Art, Las Cruces, New Mexico

2015 Pressing Through Time, Juried Exhibition, Taos, New Mexico

2014 Invitational, Ann Landi Curator, Taos Center for the Arts, Taos, New Mexico

2012 Focus on Form, Hulse Warman Gallery, Taos, New Mexico

2012 A New Minimalism, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico

2012 Guild Hall Annual, Best Sculpture Award, Lilly Wei, juror. East Hampton, New York

2012 Taos Contemporary, The Center for Visual Art, MSC, Denver, Colorado

2012 Art of the Dress, Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, New Mexico

2011 SOFA, Glass Installation, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2011 Glass, Ink on Paper, and Steel, Hulse Warman Gallery, Taos, New Mexico

2011 Drawings and Glass, Cherly Hazen Gallery, New York, New York

2011 18 Days, National Museum for Women in the Arts, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2011 NewMexorado, Juried Exhibition, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico

2010 Glass, TIGA, Hulse Warman Gallery, Taos, New Mexico

2010 Recent Acquisitions, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2010 Miniature, Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, New Mexico

2009 Biennial 600:Glass, Dante Marioni, Juror, Third Place Award, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, Texas

2008 FLUX, Refections on Contemporary Glass, New Mexico Art Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2008 Drawings, Fenix Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
2007 Focus, Taos, New Mexico
2006 Wilder Nightengale Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
2006 Box Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2005 1030 Agua Fria, Raw Art, Temporal, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2003 Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, New Mexico
2003 Danforth Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts
2002 Northern New Mexico Printmakers, Foothills Art Center, Golden, Colorado
2001 Whelan Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2001 Window Project, Museum of Fine Art site, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2000 Window Project, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1999 National Museum of Women in the Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1999 Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Galisteo, New Mexico
1999 Site Santa Fe Monothon Exhibit, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1998 Scandal, Bareiss Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
1998 De Collage, Jan Maiden Fine Art, Columbus, Ohio
1998 Site Santa Fe Monothon Exhibit, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1997 NM Film & Video Makers Forum, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
1997 Director’s Choice, Jan Maiden Fine Art, Columbus, Ohio
1997 Short Attention Span Film and Video Festival, San Francisco, New York, Berkeley
1997 Jan Maiden Fine Art, Columbus, Ohio
1996 Jan Maiden Fine Art
1996 John Sommers Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1994 University of New Mexico, Taos, New Mexico
1993 Canyon Contemporary Art, Columbus, Ohio
1992 Small Works, The Art Store, Charleston, West Virginia
1990 Roman Landscape, Monte Video, Rome, Italy
1986 Collectors Gallery, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
1983 University of California Juried Show, Irvine, California
1983 OCCCA Juried Show, Costa Mesa, California
1982 Barriers Installation, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California
1982 Predictions, Libra Gallery, Claremont, California
1982 Southern California Art, Juried Show, Fullerton, California
1982 University of California Prints, Irvine, California

PUBLICATIONS, AWARDS, COMMISSIONS

 

Guild Hall Annual, Best Sculpture Award, Lilly Wei, juror. East Hampton, New York, 2012

THE Magazine, Critical Review, November, 2011

New Mexican, Santa Fe, October 2011

Journal North, Albuquerque Journal, October, 2011

THE Magazine, Solo Exhibition Review, January, 2011

THE Magazine, Critique, Image, February,2010

Biennial 600, Third Place Award, Dante Marioni, Juror, Amarillo Museum of Art, 2009

Los Alamos Monitor, Interview, November, 2008

The Magazine, Growth, December/January, 2009

THE Magazine, Drawing, June 2007
Taos News, profile, November 2006
THE Magazine, review, September 2005
The Santa Fe Reporter, review, August 3, 2005
THE Magazine, review, August 2003
Art New England, “Profile”, June/July 2001
The Santa Fe New Mexican, review, October 22, 1999
THE Magazine, review, December 1999
Albuquerque Journal, review, October 24, 1999
The Santa Fe New Mexican, review, June 18,1999
THE Magazine, review, March 1999
Geronimo, review, February 1999
Columbus Dispatch, review, 1998
THE Magazine, review, July 1998
Columbus Dispatch, review, 1997
Kenyon College Commission, Ugly Party Series, Gambier, Ohio
Southern California Art, Fullerton, California, Leonard Edmonston, Juror, First Place
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Costa Mesa, California, Sandy Ballatore, Juror
Shepard of the Hills Church, Laguna Niguel, California, Commission for the Main Alter

SLIDE REGISTRIES

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
The Drawing Center, New York, New York
Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, Ohio
Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California

Michelle Cooke



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